I will have to investigate about possible English services, I'd be curious to see their service either way. I think there are some practices which I'd be unfamiliar with, and I suspect going to a greek community -dominant church could feel a bit intimidating alone, not being a meme er of that community or having any ties with it, unlike in your case. Not a major problem really. Annoyingly work patterns mean I can rarely attend services anyway.

I never really think about the pope, and never experienced any talk of the pope from my time in catholic churches (I could just not remember, it was a long time ago). I wonder how much investment Catholics have in the pope, what the pope says anyway. A bit like a changing CEO at your workplace who you never meet.

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Yeah I totally understand that, I'm lucky to have family ties in the community and the priests always introduceme to other converts. Even if you manage to attend just to check it out I'd highly recommend.

And yes you are correct about the Pope, most Catholics really don't like the current Pope and say the church has always had bad popes, but the individual popes are not the infallible part, it's the the papacy and what it teaches. My point goes more to the church history and whether the infallibility of the papacy has any justification and I don't believe it does.